2009 09 01 tweets
Replying to @midwinter_
I got mine a couple of weeks ago; took it to Norway with me. Super convenient!
Replying to @midwinter_
I'd pre-ordered from Amazon - I can't imagine it wouldn't be shipping from Kensington!
The air here is filled with fine ash - 30 miles from the fires.
Just asked by dean's office whether a post on a serious academic blog should be included among faculty publications. I'm so proud. #headway
Replying to @TimMcDonaldPhD
By my estimation \(a rough one fer sure\), one primarily focused on the field or other professional concerns of the author\(s\).
@alechosterman My dean doesn't; I was presented with a specific case that happened to be a serious academic blog.
Replying to @academicdave
Sure, though the question here was about a cv-level inclusion of a specific blog post as comparable to an article.
Replying to @amandafrench
I hope you & all the other east coasters will forgive me if I say I don't want to hear about it? [1/2]
Replying to @amandafrench
Forecast has been only 3 more days over 100 for 8 days now. Was 109 on Saturday; a mere 100 today. With a light rain of ash.
Wow, that sounded pissy. Wasn't going for pissy, but for "la la la, I can't hear you!" \(I blame the heat & smoke for my irritableness\.\)
Replying to @d_kompare
Don't worry about me - we're 20 miles from the nearest fire - but the smoke has permeated the area & apparently made me whiny. :)
Replying to @chutry
Hey, you write about movies, they sell machines on which you can watch movies. What's not to love?
Looked up thinking, how long until noon meeting? Answer: 24 minutes. And I was still at home in pajamas. Showered & out the door in 13 mins.
Which is to say, I rock.
Replying to @veek
Hey, cool! I'd absolutely dig it...
Replying to @cscannella
Me! http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2890
SXSW PanelPicker voting closes today; please vote for Flow and MediaCommons, "Hacking the Ivory Tower" http://bit.ly/2RDfjD
Replying to @nowviskie and @briancroxall
I stayed there last time it was in Philly, and it was great. The only downside was having to carry a coat around.
Replying to @wpwend42
Ooh, I should have sent you an invitation - we'd both get extra space free.
Replying to @wpwend42
Done!
Replying to @sramsay
I've been using Tweetie, which has been behaving fine in SL.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Coming right up!
Replying to @kintopp
Can't confirm that WPMU is affected, but can tell you that someone tried \(and failed\) to get into my WPMU 2.8.4 admin user account.
Replying to @jasonrhody
In the spirit of belt&suspenders, I use Blackblaze and Dropbox: Bb for automatic remote backup; Db for syncing across machines.
Replying to @jasonrhody
If you want to test out Dropbox, let me know and I'll send you a referral. 2GB acct free, plus a little extra space for the ref.
Replying to @jasonrhody
Sent invite to your gmail. Let me know if you have questions!
New blog post: Ick http://bit.ly/JHQ5O
After a sleepless night spent coughing in LA, I coughed my way across the country and now hope to stop coughing long enough to sleep in NYC.
Which reminds me: dear fellow passengers on CO50 today: I swear it's a bronchial infection, not H1N1. You can all relax.
Replying to @amandafrench
Better than I expected, thanks! Spent the morning in a series of mtgs at NYU & was sorry not to have time to pop in & say hi.
Replying to @amandafrench
Hey, cool! How late do you think you'll be there? I've got a 6pm dinner, but if we're done early enough I'd love to swing by.
Replying to @amandafrench
don't know if you're still at the bar - just wrapping up dinner in union sq, so would be abt 30 mins...
Replying to @amandafrench
have a great one. since my last post I figured out I'm getting sicker, so I'm going to go crash. will try to catch you tmw.
Ugh. Sick. And feeling pretty whiny about it, actually.
Replying to @koralesky
Thank you! I could certainly use it.
Replying to @amandafrench
Hope you guys had a great time last night. I collapsed & am feeling even rougher this am. Here's hoping for recovery today...
Day 1 of MLA Program Comm meeting was fabulous \(if with much coughing from me\). Aside from wifi, anything you'd like to see at future conv?
Replying to @academicdave
You'll be happy to know that formal panels at night are ending! \(And everybody expects the interview aspect is on the decline\)
Replying to @academicdave
Video is a great idea, but I can imagine that with that many panels, it would be $$$. Maybe we shd start grassroots flip mvmt.
Replying to @amndw2
Great idea! I hope there'll be more of that forthcoming.
Shameless self-promotion: I'm in Humanities Magazine this month, being questioned impertinently: http://bit.ly/fMXru
Replying to @amandafrench
Oh, no! I'm so sorry to hear you're sick, too. Probably just as well I didn't make it; we would have just wheezed together.
WTF, AT&T? I've got 5 bars on 3G and all my calls are failing!
Replying to @triproftri and @briancroxall
Lots of cool stuff coming - very exciting conversation today. Yay for a 21st century MLA!
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Me too! Thanks for the visit, and I'll look forward to keeping you posted on our progress.
At the point of seriously hoping that my cough has turned into acute bronchitis and not pneumonia. :(
Replying to @alechosterman
Got appt w/doc for Tues afternoon, but only by freaking out on the phone. Thank goodness we don't have socialized medicine!
Also starting to wonder whether it's irresponsible of me to try to teach Monday. It's not H1N1, but should I still keep my germs to myself?
Replying to @amandafrench
I hope to spend tomorrow that way. And may whether I want to or not.
Replying to @plragde
energy level is near zero. I'm going to spend today pondering alternatives from a prone position.
Okay, still with the cough and the shortness of breath, and now low-grade fever and abdominal cramps? I guess it's time for urgent care.
Replying to @plragde
I've got a call in; waiting for a reply. Thank goodness we don't have to deal with all that rationing that you guys put up with. :P
On-call dr says go to urgent care/er. Now to figure out which one will actually take my insurance. *sigh*
I think it's me & one other dude in the urgent care. Slightly creepy it's so quiet. Through initial screening & waiting on the doc.
Replying to @plragde
I'll only tweet long enough so that someone knows I'm there.
And I'm out. Xray shows no pneumonia, but acute bronchitis. And PA thinks I may have H1N1 too. Nice. Scrip for zpak & codeine. Back to bed.
PS: I'll begin my official apologies to everyone I've come in contact with over the last three days shortly. Except whoever gave me this.
Replying to @plragde
No kidding. Though there's a small part of me that's thinking, well, at least I'll have it over with...
FWIW, if this is H1N1, it sucks. I never run a fever - my temp is usually low if anything - and I'm now over 100. I hate this.
And am sorry to be whining to you poor people, but... well, here I am, and there you are.
Replying to @nancybaym
Ugh, that's awful. Okay, I'm waving the white flag - serves as a convenient handkerchief besides! Here's hoping I'm up soon.
Replying to @brettbobley
Perversely, that is precisely what I'm hoping for at this stage. Wish me luck!
Replying to @christateston
Should know by Thurs at the latest, sooner if it's +. Have also been told I'll be contacted by "federal officials" if it's +.
Replying to @christateston
So unless they drag me off to the camps, I'll let you all know as soon as I do.
Replying to @christateston
Indeed! Net-based instruction, here I come.
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Yes, the deadline's tomorrow. I think the app itself has gone in; your ltr can follow. No problem!
Sickbed update: sweated out the fever overnight; now back to my usual 98.2. Breathing better. Makes me think it's just bronchitis after all.
Go, zpack, go!
Replying to @mariabustillos
I'm hoping so, too - though I've got Skylight down for next Tuesday. Am I wrong?
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Don't get me started on this. I have an essay coming out in a volume on teaching w/tech that introduces "weblogs" to lit profs
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Wrote the essay, what, four years ago? Based on a class taught three years before that?
About to begin my first distance-ed experience - though not the way I might have expected it would happen.
Classes seem to have gone well. So grateful to my colleagues for all their help yesterday & today.
Gee, NBC4 is reporting that Jay Leno's first show was a "rousing success." I'm stunned. Thanks for the hard-hitting critical take.
Replying to @d_kompare
Ah, it's NBC4 LA, conveniently located in Burbank. In the same complex as... hey...
Hey, lazytwitter: I need a WP plugin that will allow me to see comments by user, like the user page allows you to see posts by user. Ideas?
Replying to @inactinique
Wow - that *is* cool! #zotero
@zotero 2b7 Mac is gorgeous- but a sync error: Component returned failure code: 0x804b000a \(NS\_ERROR\_MALFORMED\_URI\) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.open]
Replying to @inactinique
Aha! Thank you!
@inactinique Also, the update deleted my WebDAV settings for attachment backup; had to reinstate those. #zotero
Replying to @inactinique
Interesting - I wonder why my WebDAV settings disappeared. Anyhow, all seems to be working now.
Good grief, but I feel terrible. I keep feeling like I'm getting over this thing, but every time I think I'm out, it pulls me back in.
Replying to @mariabustillos
Thanks so much; I could use it!
Day 2 of teaching via Sakai's chatroom client. My students are together in our classroom, and so it's like peeking through a keyhole for me.
Which is to say, not entirely satisfying, and yet I'm grateful to get any glimpse of what's going on I can.
Replying to @plragde
Heh. The fever's gone, though the rest of the symptoms are lingering. I'm mostly at home out of a desire not to infect everyone...
Replying to @emilynussbaum
Super cool. I'll look forward to reading more.
Wow - awesome line from my class's online discussion: "the entire history of authorship is about fan fiction."
Replying to @plragde
It's an updating of the Roland Barthes line: Every text is a tissue of quotations. The specific ref: Chauc/Shakes Troilus&Cressida.
~@plragde But so many other possibilities. I love supplanting Bloom's anxiety of influence with fan fiction...
~@plragde I'm less sure there's that great a divide between borrowing/quotation and other forms of appropriation...
~@plragde A Thousand Acres/Clueless are exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to get at. There's a deep relationship btw Clueless & fanfic...
Replying to @plragde
But that's a pretty fine distinction. The point is that the "author" is no more original than the writer of fanfic... [1/2]
Replying to @plragde
All authorship is borrowing, in some form or another. [2/2]
Replying to @nancybaym
That's fantastic -- I hadn't heard that. Thanks for passing it on!
@kfitz Michael Chabon has said all his writing is fan fiction. Another reason to love him. \(via @nancybaym\)
Replying to @mikejolk
That's just plain awesome.
re fanfic: http://bit.ly/15O0Ad Next Tarantino Movie Homage To Beloved Tarantino Movies Of Director's Youth \(via @mikejolk\)
~@annehelen methodology = nil; have you read the description of my blog? These lists are just link farms trying to produce google juice...
Replying to @nickmirzoeff
Thank you so much! I'm increasingly excited about the possibilities...
H1N1 results are back - negative. So we're back to bronchitis, which is not getting better. I feel, in fact, like I cracked a rib coughing.
And not to whine, but: all this, and no freaking immunity to show for it?
Replying to @2xlp
Yup. Everything hurts, in one very specific spot.
Replying to @wpwend42
Glad it's working for you. I absolutely love it - the one service I cannot do without. #dropbox
The one on Hollywood Blvd? Sounds good!
Sheesh. Nothing to see here; moving on.
New blog post: The Flu and You http://bit.ly/ruP1L
Texas Tech needs a new chin strap contractor. I'm just saying.
@nowviskie I send recovery & immunity wishes your way, as one who hasn't recovered or cashed in on the immunity. :(
Replying to @nowviskie
No, no - what's the internet for, if not whining? Just sending you wishes for a speedy recovery, and wishing I'd gotten immunity!
New blog post: Teaching When \(You Think\) You Have the Flu http://bit.ly/17nS4q
Replying to @brettbobley
Thanks! It was an awful lot of fun & a great audience to get those ideas in front of. And my answers have been called "cheeky"!
@CapitolClio Somebody did -- and it worked!
Home from a return trip to the urgent care. Bruised rib is excruciating. Got steroids plus more codeine to STOP THE COUGH. Wish me luck.
Replying to @nancybaym
They did an xray so at least I know it's not cracked, but I think the treatment is the same: wait six weeks. :(
Replying to @kwazana
Yup. It's been pretty awful. Hopefully on the mend, though!
Replying to @plragde
I think that's where it all started - irritation from the smoke led to bronchial infection, etc. etc.
Replying to @mariabustillos
Laudanum would be just the thing, as I'm feeling mightly consumptive...
In Los Feliz for dinner and the end of Infinite Summer at Skylight Books. #infsum
Replying to @mariabustillos
Are we going to be 3? and inside or out? I'll get us a table.
Replying to @mariabustillos
okay, inside. see you soon!
Replying to @mariabustillos
cool beans. I'm here.
Replying to @xina and @mariabustillos
I heard the squealing tires and looked back to you see jump out of the way - awful!
Replying to @mariabustillos
A lovely and memorable night - thanks so much!
RT @performaddict: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum arrested after fake NY Post \(We're Screwed\! headline\) and SurvivaBall stunt. http://bit.ly/NcLr4
Replying to @CatinStack
hahahahahahahaha!
New blog post: Things I Love About Things http://bit.ly/3oxXwi
Fulbright referee instructions: "At several stages of the application process, reviewers only have access to the Online Application...[1/2]
...and electronically submitted materials, which should be signed by the referee across the back flap." I think my head just exploded. [2/2]
Replying to @jmittell
Where do I put the stamp?
Replying to @twel
Is all I'm sayin'.
Testing out a new Twitter tool. Nothing to see here, move along.
Replying to @skylightbooks
My pleasure - thanks for putting on such a great event!
Replying to @billiehara
Man, you really do have the worst travel luck. Take care of yourself!
New blog post: Something's... Not... Right... http://bit.ly/3k4I5
Replying to @midwinter_
First round of account invites should be going out in three days. I am trying not to salivate.
Replying to @midwinter_
According to Mashable, 100K invites on the 30th... http://bit.ly/2FJVjF
Replying to @midwinter_
I hope so! I'll look forward to finding out. Expect to see me here begging if I didn't make the first cut.
New blog post: Planned Obsolescence: Now Online http://bit.ly/HFN4W
Care about the future of scholarly publishing? Planned Obsolescence is live online for open peer review - please RT! http://bit.ly/zjXhV
Replying to @Monosyllabicism
How funny! It was a great \(if mildly surreal\) event. Hope all's well with you...
Wow. I haven't had a migraine in two years, and I've got serious migraine-aura this morning. Stress much? So glad I have one last Maxalt...
Going back to bed until I can see again. Back to Planned Obsolescence shortly, I hope.
Can mostly see out of both eyes again, though with the Maxalt it kinda feels like I'm seeing out of someone else's eyes. But it's a start!
You can follow the discussion on Planned Obsolescence via the comments RSS feed: http://bit.ly/DZwlT
Replying to @TheRepoRat
Thanks so much! This morning has been nuts, but I'm looking forward to reading your comments & continuing the conversation...
Replying to @mariabustillos
Hey, I forgot to tell you about that at dinner! Thanks for the reminder, @mattbucher!
Replying to @mariabustillos
It was the perfect epigraph for the project - how could I not use it?
Replying to @james3neal
Thanks so much! We're very excited, needless to say.
New blog post: A Very Brief Note to Tenured Radical http://bit.ly/ufKaN
Replying to @academicdave
Or, is there is a tuition benefit, why it should be universally given to faculty rather than only to those with children.
Replying to @academicdave
\(And therefore why it shouldn't be off\-limits in times of budget cuts\.\)
Replying to @d_kompare
But this isn't about universal child education; it's about a differential benefit - a huge difference!
Replying to @mariabustillos
Thank you - for the comments and for this!
Replying to @mariabustillos
Yay!
Good grief, it's delightful outside. How long has it been since I've been able to say that?
Replying to @TheRepoRat
Thanks so much for taking the time! Still playing catch-up today, but look forward to continuing the conv. Will def. follow up.
Replying to @jwolman
Me neither. But it's only 7.19 am Google time, so there's still hope. I hope.
Replying to @nancybaym
I'll be there! -- #ir10 roll call: Who's going to be there? RT!
Replying to @academicdave
Completely made my day yesterday! #dropbox
So, it's 8.30am on the west coast. Anybody gotten a Wave invite yet? \(More to the point: to whom should I direct my begging?\)
New blog post: Digital Campus http://bit.ly/EeVmS
Just finished listening to @digitalcampus - thanks to @amandafrench for making Planned Obsolescence a pick of the week! http://bit.ly/37LV7P
Thanks to @inactinique for the Brizzly invite. The first 10 people to use this code can try it, too. http://bit.ly/t2SzS
Replying to @inactinique
I haven't heard rumors of any floating around out there yet, but I'm hoping soon!
Replying to @midwinter_
If not us, then whom? Whom, I ask you?
Replying to @nancybaym
I think you should be the most popular girl on Twitter anyway. & I'm not just sucking up b/c you might someday have invites. :)
Replying to @dancohen
You & me both! I wonder if the same culprit gave it to us? \(And I hope you recover more quickly than I have; it's been a month\.\)
New blog post: Planned Obsolescence Community Blog http://bit.ly/Ek7iU
Replying to @nowviskie
Hmm. @profhacker and viruses, you say? could be something quite sinister going on...
Replying to @crsbecker, @d_kompare and @jmittell
the only thing tenure changed for me was what I was up until midnight working on \(usually chair stuff\).